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Hibiscus Flower: There need be no question in your mind about the market for good hibiscus flower photography. One of the big slide film distributors has found hibiscus flower fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen hibiscus flowers. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of hibiscus flowers grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only hibiscus flower fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful hibiscus flower projected. A close-up of a lovely hibiscus flower on a screen is a sight to make anyone, hibiscus flower lover or not, gasp at its beauty.Floiver festivals are frequent in the hibiscus flower belt between Haarlem and Leiden. When the tulips are at their height in April, every Sunday is Tulip Sunday. A National hibiscus flower Show (mid-March to mid-May) is held on the Keukenhof Estate at Lisse. Later in the season (not the bulb-hibiscus flower season), two magnificent festivals occur. The Hague stages a brilliant hibiscus flower Festival (early in August), with election of the Flows Queen (parade) and with special prizes such as that for the best bicycle Decoration (open to children); and an Aalsmeer-to-Amsterdam hibiscus flower Parade (September) culminates in the Olympic Stadium, for the award of prizes. The floats are always marvelous. See Also Pro Flowers:Nicotiana alata originally came from southern Brazil, and its pro flowers once opened about 6:00 P.M. But hybridizers have been busy and the pro flowers now stay open most of the day. Yet it is at night that the sweet fragrance makes its mark. Two cultivars are especially recommended: 'Grandiflora Alata' growing 3 feet high, with large white pro flowers often 2 inches across; and 'Lime Green' reaching 30 inches in height, with pro flowers the shade of lime sherbert.These flower between late spring and mid-summer and should be pruned as soon as their pro flowers fade. First cut out thin and weak shoots, and those that cross a shrub's center Then cut out to within a couple of buds of their base all shoots that have borne pro flowers. The removal of flowered shoots leaves young ones that will bear pro flowers during the following year If shrubs have been neglected for several seasons, many can be rejuvenated by cutting back the complete shrub. However this usually means foregoing pro flowers for one season. On The Other Hand See Flower Girl Gifts:In contrast to the bold costumes which are favored, bold-looking flower girl giftss are not. Rather, the fresh, wholesome and charming flower girl gifts is the sought-after cover flower girl gifts. She should be the typical American-flower girl gifts type, an idealization of the flower girl gifts next door, rather than exotic or foreign-looking. She must wear makeup for color, of course, but the makeup should look like ordinary street makeup, rather than showflower girl gifts or stage makeup. Showflower girl giftss, incidentally, often have the poise to make good models, and they can look as homespun as anyone when they are not made up for a performance.There are several of the world's largest chandeliers, one, a present from Czar Nicholas II, weighing three and a half tons. There are relics or gifts from most of the kings and queens of 19th-century Europe and some from an earlier period, including certain interesting Napoleana. One of Napoleon's gifts to one of the sultans is a Table with enamel insets of the women in his Life. Among them are his mother, his sister Pauline Bonaparte, and his two wives, Josephine and Marie Louise, getting along together very amicably. |
